Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Revolt in Egypt against Mubarak Clashes, four dead, many serious injuries

CAIRO - In about 25 thousand - according to organizers, 10 thousand according to the Ministry of Interior - took to the streets today in Cairo to demand political and social reforms along the lines of "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia. A mobilization that has turned into open confrontation with the police and that left four victims on the ground.

A policeman died after being swept away by the crowd in the square in clashes Tahari, three more people died in Suez. The protesters attacked police with a thick stone-throwing, the security forces were forced to retreat from the square despite the thick tear gas and using water cannons and armored vehicles.

Many demonstrators were injured, more than a dozen seriously, while about 20 people were detained after trying to attack the Parliament. Twitter, used by protesters to communicate in real time, had a blackout. Watch the video of the protests VIDEORACCONTO envoy Richard stand out events, started in center at the headquarters of the Supreme Court, you are then extended to Mohandessin district, west of the capital - where they gathered among the two thousand and three thousand people - and other areas of the city.

"Outside" and "Go" slogans at the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Many principals and marches in the cities of the province, especially in Alexandria, Assiut and Aswan, in several cities in the Nile Delta, to Ismailia on the Suez Canal and North Sinai. Rumors about Mubarak's son's escape.

The son of Egyptian President, Gamal, all indicate that as a candidate for the succession, would have fled to London with his wife and daughter, according to what refers to the online edition of the magazine Akhbar al-Arab Arab, but the news is not official confirmation. According to the site, Mubarak's son would be left without any protection at a time in Britain, aboard a private jet from the area west of Cairo.

Shortly after the release of the news, a Cairo airport official source denied this, the Egyptian newspaper al-Wafd, which senior government officials and businessmen have started this morning. The protest on the internet. The organizers of the protest count on the effect of pulling Tunisia, whose events have sparked a political debate among the Egyptians, especially on the web.

And it is on the Internet, from his Facebook page, that the Nobel Prize for Peace and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed El Baradei expressed his support for the demonstrations "against repression", denouncing "the threat to use force by a regime that trembles in front of his people." The Bedouins are joined in the protest.

Some groups of Bedouins, who live in the Sinai Peninsula, have decided to join the protests. Sources in the governorate of North Sinai has announced that the demonstrators take to the streets near the Al-Gorah, where multinational peacekeeping forces are stationed. Some members of a tribe in the village of al-Mahdia, south of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip, announced a march through the streets of Rafah and Sheikh Zowayyed.

The reasons for the protest. Organizers of the big demonstration in Cairo, at the forefront of the Movement on April 6, ihanno issued a statement with their demands. They ask for - among others - the disappearance of Mubarak, the formation of a national unity government, new parliamentary elections.

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